May concern



L. A. MATOS.

BALANCE.

No. 78,532. Patnted June 2,1868.

guild! gem gate-n1 LOUISA. m'ro's', or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. I v Lettereiatent m. 78,682, ma Jun 2, 1868. i

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msqeelmnnnmmiummnmmn item to ALL- wnou rr 1m oononnm (Be it known thst I, Lem Lemme, of the city pt Phiis'deiphis, end Stste of Pennsyivsnis, hsve invented en Improvement in Sales or Bsienee's; 1nd I do hereby dee iere thst the following is s full, clear, end exeet deseriptiou of the seine, reference heing had to theeeeempsnying drswing, end to the letters of reference msrhed thereon. Iehing pert of this speeifieetion, in which- Iigerel'is s piee view, sud

Figure-fies side e'i'evetion. Siniier letters refer to simiier psrts in the-two view'a.

0n the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred end sixty-three, Letters Patent of the United States were grented to Send) Hsrris, ot' Philsdeiphis, Pennsylvania, end numbered 89,145, for en improvement in hsisnees.

. The invention consists in substituting for the ordinary seele hsisnoe-besm e..gredusted ere, with e single weight suspended en en srnnwhieh is pivoted to the chord of there, said which he s vihreting'motion; esrrying the w e ight, eud eu index-finger ettsehed erou'nd theinside of the gredusted sreQ I hsve disoovered,in my business of druggist, thst the sforessid seeie or heisnce weighs sgsinst the buyer. In: so exempie, in selling-fluids, the .index-finger A B is first moved to thst pert of the vern'ier or grsdusted ere iudiesting the weight oeiied for. The'viei or other reeeptsele for eontsining the'flu'id is then pisoedin the pen O,snd the luidposred into it until the'seeie hsienees. Now; it is reediiy seen thet the buyer does not get the qssntity of fluid iudioeted by the index-finger A B, hut is deficient in quantity equsl to the weight of the siidingweight, E, tshes onthis h'sr D.

'visl. To eorreetthis ineeeureey; I 8: e horisoetsi her, D, to the side, end on the vernier-end of the eceie, e

To operste my improvement, first piece the viel or other reeepteele to eonthin the fluid in the pen (i. Then edjsst the weight I on the her D until the seek is in equilibrium. Plhee the index-finger st that part of the vsrnier iudiesting the weight required, end pour the fluidinte th'e visiuntil the scale is egsin in equilibrium.

The improvement herein shown is espeoieiiysdepted to the shove-mentioned eeeiee, end rushes theln the Iest'seourste tint on he-hedfor sseerteining the exeet vreighh -Whet,-I eieini es my'invention, sn'd desire to eeenre by Letters Patent, iap l The adjusting or sliding helsnoe-weight R, in eoinbinstion with the vernier or gredusted ere, end the vibrh-ting weight, which is snspen ded'on en sun which is pivoted to the chord .of the ere; subatsntielij sa shown-end described.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto signniy name to this speoifioetion in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS A. MATOS;

Witnesses: I

' Frame 1). Puronrue,

W. W. Doneuserr. 

